The new Beach Fossils video for the song “Generational Synthetic” is one-part throwback to the days of VHS video, as well as an example of how the "indie music revolution" can give artists the means to oversee every part of their media output.

Imagine My Bloody Valentine with slightly more hardcore leanings. Mind bending sounds, time shifts and pitch bends set in a more uptempo and distorted guitar environment. Which is to say: MBV as a runaway, speeding train.

The song is dead on: an organic, americana roots-rock take with a punk feel to it. It's Kasher doing what he does best ... great music fronted by sharp lyrics that cut you like a knife while making you smile.

Shark attack! Brooklyn-based alternative band Shark? have a great new song called "This Is Living," which is an interesting and biting/mocking take on "the daily grind" that most Americans call making a living.

Arcade Fire was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live last night, and they did not disappoint. They played the songs “Reflektor” and “Afterlife,” and the performance versions of the songs proved to be pretty lively ... kind of improv at times.

Indie rock band The Kills are doing a tour in December -- they've also just announced the release of a new live concert film from L'Olympia Theatre in Paris in 2011, which you can watch after the jump.

The album was a culmination of so many of the elements that were around in the nineties: alternative music, Britpop, hip hop and electronic music. It blended the worlds together so seamlessly that they all sounded like they were meant to overlap.

If you don't like hospitals, it might just be better to look away, because the video is dark and sardonic tale of a nightmare scenario: creepy doctors, nurses with syringes for fingers, and zombies in wheelchairs. And that's just the first sixty seconds.

Calexico ... the classic sounding band uses influences like Latin, Mariachi, Afro-Peruvian, Portuguese fado and 50s / 60s jazz to create a unique sound that has no rival. Check out an interview set amongst their music.

Their lyrics of alienation were always paired with a positive outlook, something that made for a complex song style. It’s hard to not enjoy this album, there’s an always-on party vibe to go with a Rock and Roll, honky-tonk, rockabilly post-punk and alternative style.

Now that the Pixies are out on tour, they're hitting the night show circuit as well as the nightclub circuit. Last night they were on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, performing the songs “Bagboy” and ”Indie Cindy” with their new bassist Kim Shattuck.

Obits get all raunchy on their new song "Spun Out," bringing their straight-ahead rock ...

No Age are reupping on their punk bona fides by getting all DIY on the release of their upcoming album An Object, doing everything from the production and reproducing of the album copies to directing the videos themselves, including the video for “An Impression.”

This is the great thing about tv on the internet ... The Soundgarden tour stopped in Los Angeles at The Wiltern earlier this year, and the PBS show Live From The Artists Den was there to document the show and do interviews.

Find out how James Murphy started by making music and later by releasing the music of friends under DFA Records. It combined two opposing forces that really didn't overlap previous to DFA Records: indie rock and dance music. Narrated by WTF podcast host Marc Maron.

New music from Superchunk with “Me & You & Jackie Mittoo” from their upcoming album I Hate Music. It sees the band doing darker music, contrary to the feel-good vibe of their previous album Majesty Shredding.

"Apparently we're supposed to store our music in the clouds?" he says before offering the QOTSA package. "What are we supposed to do if our internet goes down, again? Who are we supposed to call, the friggin' weather man? I don't think so."

Super cool Minneapolis radio station The Current was at the Walker Art Center's annual mini-music festival last month, called Rock The Garden. They just released a video from the show with the Bob Mould Band performing “The Descent.”

From the opening lines of “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space” in which Kate Radley says the song and album title to the larger than life sound that “Come Together” roars in on, you know you’re in for a fantastic voyage.

Check out interviews from Jello Biafra, pop surrealist artist Tim Biskup, Steve Olson and the artist responsible for the logo creation -- Winston Smith. They talk about how the Dead Kennedys artwork and logo came to be, from the intense album covers to the iconic DK logo.

The latest video from Yeah Yeah Yeahs is for the song 'Despair,' off the album Mosquito. The band has had a long string of videos around the album (see below) and continues to prod the boundaries of creativity.

The new Small Black video portrays a young couple who exchange glances on a train, as strangers riding in separate seats. The guy comes to his stop and departs the train ... only to find the woman still with him on his voyage.

Lemuria combine a range of genres, not always on the same song: Indie pop, punk and indie rock. Compare them to the alt-90's bands like Superchunk if you like, but the band sounds more invigorated for today than most post-90's alt rock.

Manchester ... we all hear the name thrown around as a great music city, with long standing roots of turning out great music. But what do most music fans really know about Manchester, the city itself? Get the real deal from the people that work and live in Manchester.

Sigur Ros may be down to three of its core members but they're certainly not out. Check out their new video for the song Kveikur, which is from the album of the same name. Gone are the cold Icelandic sounds in the band's sound, replaced with fiery red volcanoes.

Queens Of The Stone Age were on live on David Letterman last night, performing the song “My God Is The Sun” from their freshly released album ... Like Clockwork. They also did a full concert webcast before the show, which is included after the jump.

Mixing post-chillwave electronic elements with the vocals of an indie rock / indie folk crooner, Daughn Gibson has a new album arriving on July 9 called Me Moan, and he's offering a new MP3 called You Don't Fade in advance the album release.

The new Gauntlet Hair video for "Human Nature" digs into city life with a look from morning to night. Directed by Ryan Ohm, the video is set in Chicago and is from the upcoming Gauntlet Hair album Stills.

Check out Exitmusic's patented ambitious and cathartic drama that plays both sonically and visually in their well-crafted video. It's the multimedia music act for the modern age -- they manage the music and visuals to a high degree.

Kevin Parker from Tame Impala speaks on how Tame Impala takes chances with an ordinary indie rock sound to blend complex pop songs with on the spot improv and a retro-psych sound; all without sounding like a flashback band.

One of the classics. At a time when music had become stale, indie rock didn't rock, electronic music was transforming from its 90s alter-ego known as techno into a million different variants and the new millenium was upon us, Kid A emerged.

The Flaming Lips appeared on Jimmy Fallon, and made it into their usual spectacle. They brought their whole stage set up with them, and performed (semi-naked) the song 'Try To Explain' from The Terror.

Rogue Wave's new album Nightingale Floors arrives next month, so check out their new 'Siren's Song' from the new album. The band will start touring on June 12th, playing dates with Caveman and Hey, Marseilles.

The National have a brand spankin' new video for "Sea Of Love," from their upcoming album Trouble Will Find Me which arrives May 21st on 4AD. Guest spots on the album include Annie Clark of St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten and Sufjan Stevens.

It looks like a southern California beach party filtered through a hazy, multicolored Super 8 camera. The Growlers are influenced by 60's California rock and the garage phenomenon/revival that's happening right now.

The latest video from Helado Negro might just blow your mind. Layered clips of Helado Negro (aka Roberto Carlos Lange) each take on different parts of the song, having a virtual conversation within the song.

Iceland. What do you really know about the music scene in Reykjavik? Everybody's heard of and likes Sigur Rós and Björk, but what really goes down in the rest of Reykjavik and the country? Iceland: Beyond Sigur Rós takes the scene and breaks it down for us.

Manchester/London based post-punk band Savages are releasing their debut full-length album Silence Yourself on a combination of Matador Records and the band's own Pop Noire label on May 6/7. The sound is raw, pure post-punk emotion, the entire album is streaming right now.

It seems like just yesterday that Sub Pop was cranking out Tad, Mudhoney and Nirvana albums ... now it's ready to turn the BIG 25 with Sub Pop 1000. They released it over the weekend for Record Store Day, and now it's streaming as a full album.

Loud, in-your-face new school alternative punk from Mudhoney. It’s the latest installment from Vanishing Point, an album that shows the band having as much resiliency any of the original crop of Seattle bands that came up in the alterna-90’s.

Dirty fuzz is back. The new Deerhunter album Monomania is a more straight-up, straight-forward affair then recent outings. It sounds less studio slick and more real. It’s streaming in full right now as a full album.

The Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks and The Clash all drove the heart of the British punk scene in London. It's 1976 ... Britain seemed half asleep. There were no jobs, no future, just boredom. Find out how desperation turned into rage and hope as a thriving punk scene created their own new music and art.

This is the album that kicked it all into gear ... sure they'd been around for years, breaking out in the LA scene & becoming a bigger west coast band and underground phenomenon. This was the loud, audacious and bombastic good time that brought them into a national spotlight and broke them big.

The Flaming Lips take their new school, post-apocalyptic spaceship for a ride in their new video for the song "Try To Explain." The foil / mylar ceiling acts as a great way to connect to the audience, with lead singer Wayne Coyne holding it above the audience as it moves up and down in waves.

Coachella was a mind-blowing weekend. Check out full performances from The Postal Service and How To Destroy Angels, plus great performances from New Order, Violent Femmes, Sigur Ros, Blur, The Stone Roses ...

It might be the most famous moment in Coachella history. To anyone there, it was mesmerizing and to anyone watching the Coachella live stream it was hypnotizing. The Arcade Fire Coachella balloon drop probably went over bigger and better than they even could've thought possible.

Mike Mains and The Branches perform “Noises” Live at The Show in Pittsburgh. The indie rock band hails from Michigan and possesses a certain ferocity that has punk roots. Their love of rocking out shines through in this performance ... they simply give everything they've got. Altar TV is a music video channel that creates unique music videos combining live performances, artist interviews and studio experiences.

The Flaming Lips have launched a series of videos in which Steven Drozd and Wayne Coyne offer up their comments on the songs from their new album The Terror. It's called We Don't Control The Controls, and it's part of an ongoing series of videos from the Flaming Lips.

Experimental ambient electronic duo Mount Kimbie have released the second song from their much-anticipated album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, with the song Blood and Form. It's a very minimal and loop-based song, with a steady, pounding rhythm to underly the wry vocals. For minimal sounds it stays interesting ... always guessing as to where it will go next with out becoming stale loops.

Chelsea Light Moving has been all over the place lately, with the band out on tour in support of their new self-titled album. The band just dropped in on KEXP studios in Seattle to perform 4 songs, which you can watch ...

The new Iron and Wine album Ghost on Ghost is streaming in full a week ahead of it's release. It's the new free Sam Beam, as he has said that his approach to Ghost On Ghost was a lot more open and less tension-filled than his previous albums.

Check out the new Flaming Lips album The Terror in FULL EFFECT a week ahead of its release. The Terror seems destined to be a darker album than the normal torrent and tone of Flaming Lips albums, that as mystical and psychedelic outings have often looked towards the brighter side of things.

The great singer-songwriter that moved across all types of music: Jeff Buckley was a young master of many styles. Check out a BBC documentary about Jeff Buckley's story: his roots, his peers and his music.

This is the album that set it all in motion for Sonic Youth. Every album before Daydream Nation was an experiment built on top of an experiment, each one better than the last. If there was a Malcolm Gladwell tipping point for Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation was it; Goo was their ...

The Liars album WIXIW was released last year, but is the gift that keeps on giving. Today we get a new video for the song "The Exact Color of Doubt," directed by Markus Wambsganss. It's a nice piece of augmented reality, portraying the band members in a 3D wireframe environment.

New-psych Portland band Sun Angle have a screaming new song with Raspberry. It's an exploration of depth of sound and reverb, tweaked out with influences as far ranging as SST records and Cumbia music.

Deerhunter performed the song “Monomania”" on Jimmy Fallon last night. Singer Bradford Cox promptly left the stage at the end of the song and walked to the elevator and exited the building, with the camera following all the way ...

Sam Fogarino of Interpol has a new project called EmptyMansions, and he's just released a very gothic take on the classic Neil Young song Down By The River. It's hauntingly portrayed with a chorus of vocals that drive a sort of hell-meets-Neil-Young-in-an-old-school-castle kind of way, in slow motion. The effect is superb.

It's time to take your Medicine: the dream pop - shoegaze band have reunited and it feels so good. Take the pop music of Ride and blur it with the noisy squalls of My Bloody Valentine, that's where Medicine begins.

Considering they’re known for their over the top live performances, we didn’t quite know what to expect when Honus Honus and Pow Pow entered the studio. What we got was a beautiful, minimalist version of their song Steak Knives, which is already beautiful and pretty minimal.

The Pixies reviewed by their peers: the Gouge documentary from the BBC. Thom Yorke, David Bowie, PJ Harvey, Graham Coxon and more all weigh in on the influence that the Pixies had on them and where they were when they first heard the Pixies. It includes interviews with Pixies members and early performances (Frank Black with hair!).

Timeless music ... they might be calling this post-rock for the need to put a label on it, but different parts of this song invoke completely different eras and genres. It starts out like the kind of 70's rock you could hear on FM radio, but it also gets into post-punk turns before heading off into post-rock and even punk sounds reminiscent of the early Sebadoh thrashings.

Fresh new indie pop sounds from Rogue Wave with the new song "College," off of the new album Nightingale Floors, due out on Vagrant Records on June 4. The album follows after the death of Zach Rogue's father, but rather than have the album be about dealing with the death, Zach and band chose to use Nightingale Floors to look at the good things in life instead of focusing on death.

Big Deal have a new video for their song "In Your Car," the latest from the Mute Records band who will release the song as a single on Apr. 23, before going to release their full length album June Gloom on June 18. The video was directed by Danny Perez, who you may remember from work with Animal Collective and Black Dice.

The latest incarnation of Ryan McMahon is called Está Vivo, which means "Is Alive." The choice is a good one, because the music does just that -- creating a life-affirming free-for-all wrapped in a lo-fi indie rock / indie folk package with electronic music influences.

Anyone into the recent My Bloody Valentine revival should check out Beat Mark. Their new single for the songs "Son Thomas Hunter" and "Purple Glow" thrive on late 80's early 90's influences like the Stone Roses, Blur and Jesus and Mary Chain to craft jangly indie pop with infectuous uptempo vibes.

The jangly, noisey indie pop from Eternal Summers is going through a growth spurt, with their album Correct Behavoir getting the mix down treatment from Sune Rose Wagner from Ravonettes and Alonzo Vargas acting as producer.

Rollin Hunt might have just written the spectral soundtrack to the future. His new song Beautiful Park is cosmic indie pop in every sense of the word, each sound dazzles and percolates with life. It's like three or four songs happening simultaneously, with Rollins magic vocals floated over the top.

Check out new music from British Sea Power's new album Machineries, with the song "Machineries of Joy." It's a return to form for the band, who have their own self-styled, British indie rock sound going on. Not to mention their foray into busking on the Great Wall of China.

Punk sounds from Pissed Jeans with the new video for "Bathroom Laughter" from the new album Honeys, which is out this week on Sub Pop Records. It's a supercharged dose of Pissed Jeans and it has a way of taking over the room when it's played, and the video has the same effect with its take on late night television gone wrong.

Jim James has been on a tear lately, with the release of his excellent new album Regions of Light and Sound of God. He just released the video for the song “A New Life” -- and this follows on last week's performance of the same song on Jimmy Fallon.

Solvents' Forgive Yr Blood is the perfect blend of indie pop, folk and post punk. The movement back and forth between the violin and vocals happens so effortlessy that you could almost think one was mimicking the other.

Sonic Youth at the apex of their so-called "commercial" period. They were fully into and leading the way on the so called “sell out” of their music that so many post-punk and then Alternative bands were doing at the time. Watch the band as they were hanging out with Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana.

Taken from the upcoming Pond album Hobo Rocket, "Giant Tortoise" rocks in every way possible. Fuzzed-out guitar bliss gives way to lucid solos, which in turn comes back in tightly integrated verse-chorus-verse workouts. It's everything that's great about the Australian psych scene.

The always adventurous Nick Cave has a new video for the song “Jubilee Street,” and is so often the case with Nick Cave, it's a NSFW video. It portrays a gritty story that Nick always tells so well -- something happening on the wrong side of the tracks in a funky part of town.

Take the deep down, stripped down, guttural sounds in this performance from Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus and combine them with the patented delivery of LaBlogotheque's Take Away Shows, and you have a bare bones, down to the soul performance.

At long last, and worth the wait ... the new My Bloody Valentine album, called MBV. It's been literally decades in the making, and it's been launched just as the band heads out on tour. The band has offered all of the tracks up on YouTube, which we've compiled into a playlist here.

Check in with the Pixies on their 2004 reunion tour. Egos and creative differences broke the band apart, and they brought it back together for a major reunion starting with a show in Minneapolis. They were all "adults" at this point ... and this tour saw them managing the tensions between ...

Just in time for the arrival of the Austin Psych Fest DVD and the new Black Angels album Indigo Meadow, comes a video performance from The Black Angels from the previous Austin Psych Fest. It's for the song "Sniper," off the album Phosphorene Dream.

Battles have taken the music world for a spin as they've continued to break through the confines of electronic music, post rock and experimental music. One of the bands that can truly boast about being unable to be categorized, Battles always keeps us guessing in the best way. Check out the Battles interview set amongst tracks of their music.

This sonic sprawling clocks in at almost eight minutes, and is almost reminiscent of the most experimental era of Pink Floyd -- their pre-success days that saw them doing the soundtrack to the film More or even the epic Ummagumma. Look at the name of the band and think about it.

More new music from Blank Realm, a band from Australia with a laid-back psych approach to songwriting. Their music alternates back and forth between clean-sounding, compressed guitars with reverb to over-distorted psychedelic noise.

Miles Seaton from Akron/Family on the new, upcoming album Sub Verses: "Intelligence giving way to remix culture, nothing to do but blindly live as customers, stumbling, content drunk through the digital bazaar."

Calling The Growlers garage rock would be too easy -- and probably not a good enough description. Influenced more by 60's California rock than the garage phenomenon/revival that seems to be ongoing right now.

Host Karrie K talks to Micachu & The Shapes about the daily influence of watching the show Cheers and how it influenced the band music, ideal film directors and the worst jobs they ever had. And wankers.

This is what the post-MBV dream pop and shoegaze world has been missing - an edge. There's Ride influences here as well. It's amazing how a genre that's been around for over 20 years can still create fresh sounds.

The new video for “Jubilee Street” is a lyric video, and in classic Nick Cave form he goes old school -- offering up the lyrics straight from the typewriter. It has a strange William S. Burroughs vibe to it ... I'm just waiting for one of the typewriters from The Naked Lunch to appear.

Indie-punk-blues stalwarts Jon Spencer Blues Explosion just released a new video for the song “Bag Of Bones,” off of the album Meat And Bone. It's a short quick animated take on the whole JSBX dynamic ... it looks this could be a day in the life of Jon Spencer.

A dark and desolate walk throught the woods at night, with an ominous shadow projected in front of the camera. A minimalistic take on the darkside of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, sounds like the album release is off to a classic start!

The resurgence of Redd Kross sees the band hitting the global scene for their tour of their recent album Researching The Blues, and this show finds them at the Primavera Club in Barcelona, Spain in September of last year.

With the passing of Trish Keegan, it's been a while since new music from Broadcast crossed our path, but now there's news of a whole new album of material arriving next week with the soundtrack for the film Berberian Sound Studio from Peter Strickland. Check out the full album.